Linux version 2.6.18-131.el5 gcc version 4.1.2 RPM version 4.4.2.3 I use the following command to build packages: $ sudo rpmbuild -ba xxx.spec I thought that the debuginfo package should be buil...

If I have this line in the %files: %attr(0555, myuser, myuser) /opt/myapp/lib/my.jar Then my.jar will have myuser as owner, but directory /opt/myapp/lib will be owner by root. I don't want to wr...

I have two issues that i would like to figure out a solution to: I am renaming the munin 2.0 package and in the SPEC file for the RPM I have to obsolete the original munin packages. When replaci...

I'm attempting to use the %{dist} tag in my RPM spec file to provide distribution-specific dependencies between Fedora Core (e.g. fc12), CentOS 5 (e.g. el5) and Amazon's Linux AMI: Release: %_svn_...

I'm trying to create a package that only updates files on the system, but I keep getting errors when rpmbuild is run. The error indicates a file is missing. I've tried this on CentOS 5 and 6 with ...

I have two boxes that I'm using to build a source rpm. One of them runs: /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/name-of-package which adds three name.debug files to the RPM_BUID_RO...

Passing User defined argument to RPM is possible while installing?. for example: ~>rpm -i sample.rpm -license_path=/path/ or ~>rpm -i -license_path=/path/ sample.rpm or ~>rpm -i -s...

I'm trying to create an RPM in Fedora 15 that will install my software, but in order for my software to work correctly once installed, I also need to edit other (configuration) files on the system,...

I have a spec file. I need to %define a spec variable that gets its value from a one line file on the system. For example %define path `cat /home/user/path_file` and in path_file is one line /...

I have a .spec file that relies on a variable called _topdir. Right now when you checkout the SRPM source from git, you have to go and change where _topdir is pointing to to get the rpmbuild to fu...

Our team frequently performs customization to various packages distributed with RHEL/CentOS. Our workflow involves installing the SRPM, executing rpmbuild -bp to unpack and patch the source, making...

Because I have to install multiple versions of Python on multiple Oracle Linux servers which are built via a kickstart process, I wanted to build a python rpm for our yum repository. I was able to ...

I have a RPM file. I have to make some changes to that RPM , repack it and Test. Can anyone help me?

The file ldm.spec contains the line Source: /web/ftp/pub/ldm/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz in its first section. %{name} and %{version} are set correctly. The given file does exist. The command rpm...

Searching open source projects, shows me that spec files in the wild do use bash constructs, for instance cat info|while read. But is it really safe? Does the rpm documentation tells me I can coun...

In Fedora Gnome... Using a .desktop file in my rpm, I have successfully put my gui software into the gnome application menu. I am wondering if there is a way to also put the icon onto the gnome d...

I finally got my program packaged in a RPM on Fedora 14 yesterday, and I thought that it would be easy to build it the same way on a CentOS 4.8 box. It turns out that the older version of rpm and d...

I'm modifying an automated build, and want to tell rpmbuild to use a specific build area when invoking it. This is similar to an existing question, but more specific. I don't want to run any of ...

I have a library from which I'd like to create two RPM packages. While I found several links on how to create a basic RPM package, I can't find how to create a devel package (see this question if ...

I've been trying to find out what's the easiest way to set a fixed filename during rpm creation. Can it be set somewhere in .spec file or as rpmbuild parameter? The default name depends on version ...

I have been reading about creating an RPM for Python 2.6.4. In this page: http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html it says you can create an RPM of the current Python using python setup.py b...